Stage 15 : September 04, 2016 Sabinanigo - Formigal 118.5 km 1 Gianluca Brambilla (Ita) Etixx - Quick-Step 2.54.30 2 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0.03 3 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0.25 4 Kenny Elissonde (Fra) FDJ 0.28 5 David De La Cruz (Spa) Etixx - Quick-Step 0.31 6 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff Team 0.34 7 Davide Formolo (Ita) Cannondale-Drapac 0.53 8 Matvey Mamykin (Rus) Team Katusha 1.16 9 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-BikeExchange 1.53 10 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Astana Pro Team 1.59 Changes in GC, stage 15 compared to stage 14 : Biggest gainers by position : +34 Dylan Teuns +31 Quentin Jauregui +31 Moreno Moser +30 Louis Vervaeke +30 Jaime Roson Garcia +30 Ivan Rovny +30 Chad Haga +29 Omar Fraile Matarranza +29 Mattia Cattaneo +28 Alessandro Vanotti Biggest losers by position : -26 Leopold Konig -17 Mathias Frank -17 Peter Kennaugh -17 Pierre Latour -17 Robert Gesink -16 Alberto Losada Alguacil -16 Darwin Atapuma -16 Jose Joao Pimenta Costa Mendes -16 Maxime Bouet -16 Rudy Molard -15 Jesus Hernandez Blazquez Biggest gainers by time : +0:07 Gianluca Brambilla Biggest losers by time : -53:57 Adam Hansen -53:57 Alberto Losada Alguacil -53:57 Alexandre Geniez -53:57 Bart De Clercq -53:57 Bram Tankink -53:57 Bryan Nauleau -53:57 Cesare Benedetti -53:57 Christian Knees -53:57 Christophe Riblon -53:57 Darwin Atapuma -53:57 Dmitriy Gruzdev Favourites by position : +10 Pierre Rolland +3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte +2 Jean-Christophe Peraud +2 Alberto Contador Velasco +1 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez +1 Andrew Talansky -1 Simon Yates -10 Tejay van Garderen -17 Robert Gesink -17 Mathias Frank -26 Leopold Konig Favourites by time : -0:34 Alberto Contador Velasco -1:56 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio -2:13 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez -2:13 Andrew Talansky -2:34 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -2:43 Jean-Christophe Peraud -2:43 Christopher Froome -2:50 Simon Yates -10:15 Pierre Rolland -53:57 Tejay van Garderen -53:57 Robert Gesink -53:57 Mathias Frank -53:57 Leopold Konig Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas 61:36:07 (unchanged) 2 Christopher Froome 3:37 (was 2nd at 0:54) 3 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 3:57 (was 3rd at 2:01) 4 Alberto Contador Velasco 4:02 (was 6th at 3:28) 5 Simon Yates 5:07 (was 4th at 2:17) 6 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 6:12 (was 7th at 3:59) 7 Andrew Talansky 6:43 (was 8th at 4:30) 8 Davide Formolo 7:17 (was 11th at 6:21) 9 David de la Cruz Melgarejo 7:23 (was 14th at 6:49) 10 Michele Scarponi 7:39 (was 9th at 5:37) ..... 14 Jean-Christophe Peraud 11:06 (was 16th at 8:23) ..... 16 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 12:48 (was 19th at 10:14) ..... 31 Leopold Konig 56:35 (was 5th at 2:38) ..... 40 Pierre Rolland 1:12:39 (was 50th at 1:02:24) ..... 52 Mathias Frank 1:29:40 (was 35th at 35:43) ..... 55 Robert Gesink 1:36:18 (was 38th at 42:21) ..... 90 Tejay van Garderen 2:41:25 (was 80th at 1:47:28) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Alejandro Valverde 93 (was 1st with 92 points) 2 Nairo Quintana 86 (was 2nd with 66 points) 3 Fabio Felline 76 (was 6th with 60 points) 4 Luis Leon Sanchez 65 (was 3rd with 65 points) 5 Christopher Froome 62 (was 4th with 62 points) 6 Simon Yates 54 (was 7th with 54 points) 7 Kenny Elissonde 47 (was 13th with 33 points) 8 Alberto Contador 45 (was 17th with 31 points) 9 Esteban Chaves 45 (was 10th with 38 points) 10 David De La Cruz 44 (was 14th with 32 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Kenny Elissonde 56 (was 1st with 49 points) 2 Omar Fraile 48 (was 2nd with 40 points) 3 Robert Gesink 30 (unchanged) 4 Nairo Quintana 27 (was 7th with 21 points) 5 Alexandre Geniez 25 (was 4th with 25 points) 6 Egor Silin 23 (was 5th with 23 points) 7 Sergey Lagutin 22 (was 6th with 22 points) 8 Thomas De Gendt 19 (unchanged) 9 Gianluca Brambilla 18 (was 16th with 8 points) 10 Christopher Froome 16 (was 9th with 16 points) Retirements to date : Stage Jacques Janse van Rensburg (RSA) Dimension Data 15 <<< Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 14 Davide Malacarne (Ita) Astana Pro Team 14 Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ 14 Kenneth Van Bilsen (Bel) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 14 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) BMC Racing Team 14 Zico Waeytens (Bel) Team Giant-Alpecin 13 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Fra) Direct Energie 12 Florian Senechal (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 12 Nathan Haas (Aus) Dimension Data 12 Jose Goncalves (Por) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 11 Laurent Pichon (Fra) FDJ 11 Patrick Bevin (NZl) Cannondale-Drapac 11 Silvio Herklotz (Ger) Bora-Argon 18 11 Simon Clarke (Aus) Cannondale-Drapac 11 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Bora-Argon 18 10 Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ 10 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 10 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 9 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Dimension Data 9 Tony Hurel (Fra) Direct Energie 9 Yoann Bagot (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 9 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Sky 7 Niccolo Bonifazio (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 7 Rein Taaramae (Est) Team Katusha 7 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 6 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Tinkoff Team 6 Sebastien Minard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 6 Lluis Guillermo Mas Bonet (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 5 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) FDJ 5 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 5 Federico Zurlo (Ita) Lampre - Merida 4 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa) IAM Cycling 4 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin 3 Total retirements : 34